LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diesel Engines for Life-Boats
UP to the present all the motor life- boats in the Institution's fleet have been driven by petrol engines. The reason has been that, although the heavy oil used in Diesel engines is less inflammable than petrol, and the risk of fire much...
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The S.S. Corchester and S.S. Cormull
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.44 on the morning of the 19th of February, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corchester, of London, had collided with another vessel two miles west of Haisboro' lightvessel, and that the CorcJiester...
An Airliner (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Life-Boat Calendars and Christmas Card
THEE.E will again be two life-boat calendars ready for Christmas, one for hanging and the other for the pocket or handbag, and this year the Institution will also issue a Christmas card, the first since 1941.
The hanging...
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Astronaut
MOTOR BOAT OVERDUE Selsey, Sussex. At 6.40 p.m. on 24th January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was overdue at Littlehampton. Mr. Andrews, a member of the Inshore Rescue Scheme, had...
CAPSIZE of DUTCH LIFEBOAT
WITH GREAT REGRET we have to report that the Royal North and South Holland Lifeboat Institution lifeboat Christiaen Huygens of Den Helder capsized on March 26, 1975. Two of her crew of three lost their lives.
At about 2145...
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A Rubber Dinghy from a Wellington Bomber
OCTOBER 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 12.50 in the afternoon the landlord of the Crown Inn, on the sea front, was serving in his bar. The morning had been foggy, but at that moment the sun came through and as it did so...
May (1)
LLANERCHYMOR, FLINTSHIRE. At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1945, an Anson aeroplane came down in the Dee Estuary, off Llanerchymor. A strong southwest wind was blowing, but the sea was calm.
The crash was...
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The Natural Navigator
The Natural Navigator
By Tristan Gooley
Review by David Price
Let this book take you back to navigational basics with some intriguing techniques.
It is...
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The S.S. Verbormilia
FEBRUARY 6TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
Just after 11 P.M. information wasreceived from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore west of Fast Castle Point. The motor life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched...